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Thank you, over the past months and weeks,

the crackdown by the regime in Iran continues unabated.

The situation remains horrific for so many, particularly young people,

whose only crime was to demand the liberty that we take for granted.

More and more protesters are being sentenced to death in a desperate attempt by the regime to instill a culture of fear among the people of Iran.

Nothing better illustrates the horror more than the case of twin sisters, Tarawneh and Romina Ranalli,

who were just teenagers when they were dragged from their beds by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last January.

Since then, they have endured cruelty beyond what many are capable of bearing.

It took 4 months for their mother, Marzia, to learn what had happened to them.

By the time she could visit, her daughters were unrecognizable under bruises,

limping with hair ripped out of its roots.

There have been reports of torture, threats of rape, and sexual violence,

unless one of them confessed to imagined crimes.

Taran has been sentenced to death and Romina to a 25 year prison term.

Their family has not seen them since the sentence. Theirs is not an isolated case.

There are many,

many more stories of the horror inflicted by a regime trying to beat their people into a futile last gap attempt at submission and silence.

I know that this is an issue close to the hearts of many Members here.

In your name today we tell the 92 million people of Iran that they are not alone, that light will crack through the darkness,

and that a regime that uses violence, murder,

and repression as tools of self-preservation is a regime that is desperate and understands that it has no legitimacy.

So we will continue to demand the immediate release of Taran,

Romina and all those unjustly imprisoned. We will not be silent.

That is why we took the steps that we did of banning representatives of the regime from our Parliament.

That is why we insisted to designate the IRDC as the terrorist organization we know it to be,

and that is why we will keep playing our part to amplify the voice of those demanding freedom.